McGonagall at the Dursleys

[jtdogberry <jtdogberry@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51561

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "GRACE701 <grace701 at y...>" 
<grace701 at y...> wrote:
> "Isn't it odd that, at the start of PS/SS, Dumbledore didn't 
> recognise McGonagall as a tabby cat?"

ME:
Hmm, I've got my copy of PS (UK edition) in front of me and when 
Dumbledore first appears, he laughs at the sight of the cat. He also 
saya that he has never seen a cat sit so stiffly. He seems to expect 
that she will be there. But Mcgonagall is suprise that Dumbledore 
reconises her, I think that is because it was dark, in which case her 
markings would be hard to see.

> Also from The Cat Sat on the Wall:
> "When Dumbledore reveals that he is at the Dursleys to deliver 
Harry 
> Potter, she seems outraged that he would be leaving him with them 
> and says: "I've been watching them all day". Why was she watching 
> the Dursleys' house if she had no inkling that they were Harry's 
> relatives? When Dumbledore says, "I suppose it was [Hagrid] who 
told 
> you I'd be here, by the way?" McGonagall says, "Yes" and changes 
the 
> subject. Could she have been covering up her real reason for being 
> there or was she just waiting at 4 Privet Drive because she needed 
> to speak to Dumbledore? 
CUT
> It has been suggested that the Dursleys House might be under 
> a Fidelius charm and that McGonagall might be the Secret Keeper."
> 
> Being that she heard the rumor of the Potters being dead.  IMO, 
> Maybe she decided to go straight to the Dursleys in case Voldemort 
> wanted to try to attack Harry again knowing that Harry didn't have 
> any other relatives in the Wizarding world.

ME:
I think it was the only place she knew that Dumbledore would be 
eventually. If Voldemort has only just been defeated, then Dumbledore 
still has a lot of work to be done and is unlikly to stay in one 
place, she also wants to know why he would have to come here, it is a 
rather odd place for him to go! She had nothing to go on, just that 
there was something here that Dumbledore needed, since all that was 
there was there Dursleys, she watched them, she didn't have anything 
else to do.
I think she is being careful about celebrating just in case, the 
rumors aren't true in which case her help would be needed.

Poor Old Mcgonagall, she has to hear everything second hand, it's not 
fair on her IMO, and no I don't think she is or ever will be evil.

Then again I could be wrong
Dogberry